Environment
Big food business sells veganism to mask its crimes
From October, when Christmas apparently begins, capitalists spend a fortune creating a bubble of unreality—worries can wait, cheese and Baileys have no calories.
Campaigners win a victory over fracking fiasco
Anti-fracking campaigners see the removal of fracking equipment from a site in Lancashire as a significant step forward.
UN conference deal will not halt climate catastrophe
The official pronouncements are wholly inadequate, but pressure is mounting for politicians to act on climate change.
As anger at climate change boils over - how can we save the planet?
A renewed wave of rebellion is taking place worldwide to take on the threat of catastrophic climate change
Extinction Rebellion shuts down five London bridges
Thousands of climate change activists blocked five central London bridges for hours on Saturday, leading to arrests and causing chaos for the cops.
Frackers all shaken up as tremors pause work
Bosses’ claims that fracking is safe have been rumbled by activists and small earthquakes, says Sarah Bates
International round-up - Anti-racist action across Italy and German forest under threat
30 October 2018“In my country nobody is a foreigner!” This slogan summarised a day of national mobilisation in Italy on Saturday last week.
Anti-frackers freed from prison, and call for mass demonstration
18 October 2018After three jailed protesters were released on appeal, they urged everyone to be part of the fight against fracking and join a mass demonstration.
Grenfell Tower soil is ‘toxic’ and could put health at risk, says report
16 October 2018The soil in the area up to a mile from Grenfell Tower is toxic. That’s according to the preliminary findings of a report due to be released early next year.
Cuadrilla begins first fracking in Britain for seven years
15 October 2018Fracking has once again started in Britain, another sign of how the government and big business are endangering the environment.
Stark warning issued over a global rise in temperature
09 October 2018A new report warns against further global temperature rises. Implementing it will mean challenging the logic of capitalism, argues Sarah Bates
Councils inject £9 billion into fracking companies
07 September 2018A new report has uncovered how council bosses are investing workers’ money into dirty drilling. Sarah Bates looks at who’s funding the fossil fuel giants
Capital cooks our planet
07 August 2018An international group of scientists has said we face environmental collapse in just a few decades if there isn’t drastic action on climate change.
Ready for fraction - the Tory love-in with frackers and the resistance
29 July 2018On the last day of parliament before their summer holidays, the government snuck out final approval for fracking to go ahead in Lancashire. Activists tell Sarah Bates they are determined to keep resisting
LETTERS - Saddleworth Moor blaze shows danger of fire service cuts
03 July 2018I live in Mossley, near the Saddleworth Moor fire that raged for almost a week.
It's time to burst the bubble of capitalism
22 June 2018A panic over shortages of carbon dioxide (CO2) is a very good example of the defects of capitalism.
Oppose the Tories’ poisonous plan for Heathrow expansion
10 June 2018As the government has given the go ahead for a third runway at Heathrow airport, Sarah Bates examines the dangerous environmental and social cost
Opposition grows after revelations of Sheffield’s plans to cut down half its trees
14 March 2018Sheffield Labour council plans to cut down half of its 36,000 street trees. This is under a £2.2 billion PFI deal with multinational Amey.
Fracking revolt grows stronger in Derbyshire
27 February 2018Hundreds of people marched on a noisy and colourful Not for Shale anti-fracking protest through the North Derbyshire countryside last Saturday.
Tree campaigners united with the union branches
13 February 2018Trees campaign protesters stormed into Sheffield council chamber on Wednesday of last week calling for a £2.2 billion PFI contract to be scrapped.
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